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Obama on birth certificate questions: ‘We do not have time for this kind of silliness’

By | 04.27.11 | 10:51 am

The White House today issued on its website a certified copy of President Obama’s long-form birth certificate. It confirms, as is well-documented, that Obama was born in Honolulu’s Kapiolani Maternity Hospital in 1961.

The image of the certificate, made available on the White House website (PDF), appears at More…

At press conference, Pawlenty addresses possibility of extended tenure

By | 11.05.10 | 3:00 pm

In a piece published today, TWI detailed how a recount in the gubernatorial race between Democrat Mark Dayton and Republican Tom Emmer might play out. Dayton holds a significant lead, just shy of 9,000 votes, a margin that is still close enough to trigger an automatic recount unless the More…

The New Democratic Agenda

By | 11.03.10 | 2:06 pm

President Obama just fielded questions about the way forward following last night’s election and the huge gains made by Republicans in the House. He refused to concede that his policy decisions made up to this point in his presidency are the reason the electorate voted overwhelmingly against Democrats last night, More…

Tea Party Patriots Lay Claim to the Political Center in Debates to Come

By | 11.03.10 | 11:41 am

The Tea Party Patriots, one of the the largest Tea Party umbrella organizations, with over 1,000 local chapters, hosted a press conference this morning to offer its reactions to last night’s elections and its vision going forward.

Co-founder Mark Meckler tried to pre-empt expectations among the faithful that Washington would More…

Obama on the Economy

By | 09.10.10 | 1:28 pm

This morning, President Barack Obama held a press conference, the eighth of his tenure, and focused mostly on the economy. Here’s a rundown of what he had to say.

Tripartisan Climate Bill Begins to Take Form

By | 12.10.09 | 3:27 pm

Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) just held a press conference to outline the broad strokes of the climate bill they will soon introduce. Details were scarce, but the renewed statement of commitment by the three senators represents serious progress over the partisan gridlock that More…

Obama Waffles (Again) On Prosecution of Bush officials

By | 02.09.09 | 9:55 pm

During President Obama’s first prime time press conference tonight, he was asked his opinion of Sen. Patrick Leahy’s (D-Vt.) proposal to start a comprehensive “truth and reconciliation commission” to investigate the conduct of the Bush administration over the last eight years.  Obama skillfully waffled on his answer:

Robert Gibbs Takes a Beating

By | 02.03.09 | 2:18 pm

Today was not a good day to be the White House press secretary.

After two of President Obama’s prominent nominees withdrew from consideration because of tax concerns, Robert Gibbs took tough questions from the media at his daily press conference. And he didn’t enjoy a bit of it. More…

Blagojevich Apparently Unaware He’s Been Accused of Corruption (Updated With Video)

By | 01.09.09 | 3:56 pm

Following his impeachment this morning, Gov. Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.) gave a press conference that addressed everything under the sun — except the charges of corruption and abuse of power for which he was impeached. It was an utterly bizarre spectacle that left CNN’s Rick Sanchez asking, “What the hell was More…

Obama Appoints Vilsack to Agriculture, Salazar to Interior

By | 12.17.08 | 12:39 pm

Keeping his presser-a-day streak alive, this morning President-elect Barack Obama filled two more cabinet slots, nominating former Gov. Tom Vilsack (D-Iowa) as secretary of agriculture and Sen. Ken Salazar (D-Col.) as secretary of the interior.

A month ago, Vilsack was considered the front-runner for the agriculture position, but in More…